Has the future of man all ready been foretold in a song

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In the year 2525

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Fantastic song … one of my favourites. Bit gloomy but I’m beginning to think 2525 is a little optimistic.

My wasn’t that a cheery post.

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More about consequences, rather moving! :slightly_frowning_face:

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I rather think a catastrophe of global proportions will stop us in our tracks. It did to the Dinosaurs…Man always thinks it’s just about him… :009:

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We may as well just go, women have started thinking :icon_wink:

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I remember liking that song in my youth too. I had forgotten about it until now.
Considering the changes in technology since that song was written, I think 2525 is a bit optimistic too!
Some of the things they were singing about in the far distant future have started to happen already!

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Eve of Destruction?

As long as it stays in the Northern Hemisphere I’m alright Jack.

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Might not.Though

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Oh dear, someones been watching David Attenborough and the news on the BBC… :009:
When all those songs about armageddon were written everyone was high on drugs and buggered off to Woodstock…
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…and the Vietnam war plus the cold war was in full swing.

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Yeah, things looked bleak in those days Bruce. Not to mention that we had a taste of the total destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and nuclear war has been hanging over our heads ever since. However, even if there was a nuclear exchange, I don’t believe it would be the end of mankind (or womankind) life would probably change for everybody and we would have to start again from scratch…Perhaps that’s how we got here in the first place.

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I’m not too scared of Armageddon!
We’ve all got to go sometime.
Rather what’s going on around us at the moment.

Joe Stummer and Mick Jones will never be celebrated as prophets, but what a song!

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Unless we can get off this planet, and find somewhere else to live, humanity won’t make it to 2525…

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I agree wholeheartedly, I never believed current humans were the final “rung” of human evolution, far too many “ingrained flaws”, then again, may be the powers that be have a far superior being in mind.

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A good point Senile, we are unwittingly producing substandard human beings, using drugs and vaccines we are making our immune systems redundant. True, we are living longer, but not necessarily more healthier and fitter.
The demise of the human race could come from hereditary issues.

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